Great stuff Paul. 1876-1877 had weather that would have the climate alarmists frothing.
https://craigm350.wordpress.com/?s=1876&submit=Search
I have also noted, as you did, the similarities with the winds and precipitation that winter in the UK;
https://craigm350.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/the-great-global-weirding-of-18767/
By Paul Homewood
According to the “experts”, global warming means higher rainfall for the UK. If so, it must have been mighty warm in the 1870’s!
NB There are five regions in the above HADUKP data, so only SW England & S Wales fails to appear with a record. This regional data only starts in 1873, so misses out on the record wet year of 1872, which almost certainly would have set more records.
Of course, there were no TV crews around in the 1870’s to spread their message of calamity. However, the Royal Windsor website has an interesting set of engravings and reports, collected from the Illustrated London News, of floods in the area in the 19thC. The full set is here, but these are the entries for the 1870’s:
I don’t suppose Disraeli blamed all this on CO2!
Sources
England & Wales Rainfall series
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadukp/data/download.html
WeatherAction News 
After the Somerset floods in 1914 I constructed some control charts for Winter rain, and they suggest all we are getting is normal British Weather.
Has The UK Had Exceptional Winter Rainfall Or Is It Just Weather As Normal?
See them at https://oldgifford.wordpress.com/